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I wish i wasn't so bad and lazy at environments.
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Sharpest Crayon posted:HAHAHAHA I'd say "same" but you've spent loads more effort on that bg than I can ever muster on mine, if that's what you always do I wouldn't worry honestly. But worrying makes me try  Yours works well without a complicated background. I like it. ThePlague-Daemon fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Feb 23, 2018 |
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Feb 23, 2018 02:53
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 Remedial landscape practice with references. Complicated stuff is a big problem, since far off details like cityscapes seem like they should be simplified but I haven't figured out how to do it in a way that feels right, and I can't replicate stuff like mountains and rocks well from imagination. Bottom right was just a thing from imagination for fun.
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Feb 26, 2018 08:18
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Sharpest Crayon posted:Try to spend as little time on the furthest stuff as you can. Practice trying to capture the essence of the shapes without refining them too much. And when you've done that, don't stare at them individually and think "no this looks like just a blob I better pull out the tiny brush and get to work", let you eye travel across the pic like a casual observers eye would. Having said that, you've still got a good sense of depth on them all. Thanks for the help. I don't know what it is, it just feels like sometimes when there's too much variation on a surface or environment I have trouble getting the idea of it down and it takes a lot longer than it really should. I think it's just a problem of getting psyched out by textures. I might have to start doing these without my glasses.  I did these today. I think the left one's a little more successful. Then I drew a space pirate.  That's a good Frank.
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Feb 27, 2018 07:53
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Today was bad and unproductive and this is everything I thought I might wanna look at again. Human faces are hard.
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Feb 28, 2018 06:21
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Today was just not a good day. I gotta experiment more with brush settings and make some new brushes so they're easy to get at or something because jeez. Figuring out paper textures better and actually using them might help too.
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Mar 1, 2018 06:53
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I've been having a bad few days with my art where I don't do as much as I want. I was gonna do some surreal landscape thumbnails but it didn't get any further than this: 
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Mar 2, 2018 06:51
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Didn't do much new today, just went back and built on yesterday's stuff.  The landscape stuff is fun, I just need to put in more effort.
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Mar 3, 2018 04:41
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Radio du Cambodge posted:I think it looks cool, I don't know anything about digital brushes but I am always impressed by people building up landscapes and faces and stuff from such fat strokes of color. So different from how I perceive and construct things in my own drawings. Thanks. I like seeing other people do it, but it's not my usual thing, so I didn't feel like I was putting it to good use. Internet Kraken posted:You could be the most amazing artist in the world and it wouldn't matter if nobody ever saw your art. Putting your art on the internet and hoping people randomly stumble across it is a crapshoot. Yeah, I can confirm this. I tend to like drawing anthropomorphic creatures and animals anyway, so I tried marketing non-pornographic commissions at furries, but I only ever got one commission. I didn't try to go any deeper into that community, because I kinda get worried about that association as it is, so I regret it. I'm not good a good learner though because I spent the last couple days working on this for one of their contests on deviantart (using this reference):  I didn't feel right about entering it, so I didn't, and it kinda soured me on finishing it.
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Mar 5, 2018 21:32
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Your last few GIFs have a really cool Flashback vibe.
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Mar 5, 2018 21:41
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Still a work in progress, but even though today was kinda lazy overall I feel good about what I did get done.
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Mar 8, 2018 06:23
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Still a work in progress, but I'm really liking it: Sharpest Crayon posted:Oh hey nevermind that this was days ago it looks pretty hecking sweet and I always wanted to ask what the contest was about and why you decided not to do it? Was it deviantart drama? Please tell me it was deviantart drama. Nah. I stumbled across something called AnthroChallenge, and I misread the prize info and thought it was how that particular mod selected front page features, but it turned out it was just the front page of the AnthroChallenge group, which isn't really a lot of exposure. Also I think my art's better than a lot of the entries and past winners by a kind of unfair amount, so I just felt kinda iffy about entering it given that I'm not invested in that community and I don't even want the prize that much. Cool dragon btw This is really good! These are so hard to do well. ThePlague-Daemon fucked around with this message at 08:26 on Mar 9, 2018 |
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Mar 9, 2018 06:53
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felat posted:This is looking great! Thanks! Unfortunately, I really just don't get rocks and this is the final product:  I need to do more rock studies.
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Mar 10, 2018 02:28
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I think you're right, so I made so quick adjustments to built up from: I'll probably tone down the highlights too.
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Mar 10, 2018 03:58
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I think I've reached the point where it's time to stop and move on.
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Mar 12, 2018 07:22
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Dangerous Minority posted:What program do you use? Or is it traditional? I use Corel Painter. I'm not so good at traditional because I can't use layers and tonal adjustment tools. Now I'm working on this:  Imaginary Friend posted:Hi! Have some crappy sketches! These are good 
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Mar 14, 2018 00:16
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 Very slowly turning this into something
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Mar 17, 2018 01:37
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I'm not sure this is worth salvaging at this point.
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Mar 20, 2018 06:31
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I dunno, it just wasn't working for me. This is, though:  Part of a larger piece I need to do a lot more work on.
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Mar 23, 2018 01:21
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I put my last painting on hold to work on this one instead:
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Apr 3, 2018 02:16
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d3c0y2 posted:this is amazing. Thanks! Same, honestly. This one's 4800x3000, and I gotta turn the anti-aliasing off. Argue posted:I just flew back from Bhutan and boy are my arms tired! From field drawing! These are really cool and I'm jealous.
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Apr 3, 2018 06:34
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MTV Crib Death posted:Amazing. Do you have a ballpark estimate of the time that goes into something like this? Honestly it takes me way more time than it probably should, since I'm pretty terrible about doing proper thumbnails and preplanning, so I end up having to change a lot. I think that particular version is somewhere like 6+ hours (this is probably a low estimate) but with false starts and redoing the background when I decided I didn't like how the first version was looking. Speed's kind of a problem area for me but it's getting a lot better.
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Apr 4, 2018 19:25
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 Not too much longer now I hope.
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Apr 6, 2018 00:16
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^^^^ I like that a lot. I finished this, I think: 
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Apr 7, 2018 21:21
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Just giving this a shot real quick. How's this? 
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Apr 8, 2018 04:37
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MTV Crib Death posted:
Check out Proko. He talks about using the head for measurement, but you can do it with eyes, etc.
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Apr 8, 2018 18:33
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MTV Crib Death posted:I think if I hadn't smashed her chin in, it would look a good deal like her. I also got the bridge of the nose all wrong which in turn ruined her right eye. Hard to see these things in the thick of it. Try lining up the edge of your pencil horizontally and vertically with points on the edges of the features so you can see where things should be lining up. That would help you spot things like where the edge of the nostril is relative to the edge of the mouth and far eyebrow without having to use a smaller grid (unless you wanted to). Even with a grid sometimes I find it really easy to get too focused on making stuff look good in isolation, but what you want is for everything to work together, and I find that technique really helps when I remember to do it. Also, you can figure out some guidelines early on if you line up the edge of your pencil along the edge of straight-ish area like the edge of the forehead and see where the line would intersect along the grid if it kept going straight, which could help with angles and stuff. You can also simplify complicated stuff like the edge of the eyebrow to the chin or the edges of the hair into one guideline and kinda work with it from there.
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Apr 11, 2018 21:59
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I've been working on a commission for a friend of mine. Someday I'll figure out how to do backgrounds properly
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Apr 18, 2018 01:24
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 I managed to get this as done as it's gonna get. I still need to get better at a lot of things. JoshTheStampede posted:Can you talk a little about your process? I usually go in trying to do some thumbnail sketches, then blocking in the colors and values, and then trying to build it up from there, but I've got a bad habit of going overboard on one area for longer than I should when more of the painting needs my attention. I want to get better at establishing my lights and darks earlier on before I try to go in with more details. I've got a habit of jumping into the painting part when the sketch is a little too bland, also. I just need to get out of the habit of skipping ahead and giving myself more work later on.
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Apr 27, 2018 21:57
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I've been trying to sketch out a little comic the past few days.
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May 17, 2018 23:34
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I'm trying to iron out a webcomic and this is the look I've settled on for now:
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Jun 3, 2018 04:32
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Just a work in progress, but today I took a break from trying to make comics happen and started trying to make this happen instead.
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Jun 14, 2018 04:39
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Thanks guys! Still a work in progress, but I've solidified where it's going now, I think: Propitious Jerk posted:Another illustration, this time a spot for my rpg campaign. This style is really cool.
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Jun 15, 2018 04:07
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Feeling a bit too lazy to clean this up but for a little stress reliever/side project I feel good enough about it to be done with it.
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Jun 15, 2018 20:12
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Jun 21, 2018 01:03
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Threw this together today.
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Jun 22, 2018 01:15
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I thought I'd try and see if doing fanart gets me more views. Also I'm feeling good about my lighting lately. These are rad
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Jun 23, 2018 05:44
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Yeah, what I've found is people generally don't stick around past one piece. I'm getting a lot more views than normal on this one, but just a couple new followers and a little better than average user page views (this is all on deviantart). I got a Daily Deviation awhile back but even that wasn't a huge gain. I wanna get more involved in an art community, but I never know where to start.
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Jun 23, 2018 20:07
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I should clarify that even when I do fanart I wouldn't do fanart that I didn't think would be fun to do. Okay except for the bow. It was hard to do and it looks like poo poo  That's what happens when you get too lazy to bring out the perspective tool and just say gently caress it Can I get a link to your portfolio site? Your stuff is amazing.
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Jun 28, 2018 23:30
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Haven't posted much in here lately because I've been mostly doing commissions for furries and I dunno. It's different. I should probably be trying to slot in more personal art. I think this last one turned out really nice, though:
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